Council of Elders Meeting Minutes, September 21, 1935 – October 3, 1935

Major Topics of the 1935 Minutes:

—General Assembly advertising funding

—Ministerial standards

—Funding to widows

—Applications for financial aid

—Funding for Northwest Bible School and Music Academy

—Aged Ministers Fund(Requirements, classifications, etc.)

—Investigation of the church, Orphanage, Publishing House, Bible Trainng School, etc.

—Tract distribution

—Management of insurance premiums

—Repealed decision to allocate offerings from Young Peoples Endeavor to the Bible Training School and their traveling quartet

—Salary of the General Overseer, General Secretary, Treasurer, Editor, Publisher, Sunday School Editor, and Music Editor

—Establishment of a Bible School in Florida

—Reporting of statistics in the Evangel

—Ministerial reporting to headquarters

—Loan to the Publishing House from the Tithe Fund

—Payment by S.W. Latimer on the general indebtedness in the amount of $350.00

—Questioning of Brother Bauldree

—A vote on General Overseer filling the position of Sunday School Editor

—Publishing Committee qualifications

—Brother Baney of Dryersburg

—Indefinately postponed recommendation of "northern colored bretheren"

—Loan and salary specifications

—The counsel of twelve determine the location for the following year's General Assembly

—Funding for the Twelve Councillors to attend council meetings

Major Topics of Additional Reports:

—The mismanagement of the boys farm and Orphanage Committee

—The economic success of the Publishing House, along with the worker's dissatisfaction and irregularity of compensation to the Assembly Clerks on behalf of the Publisher and Editor.

—Lack of efficiency on behalf of the School Board at the Bible Training School and satisfaction with the Superintendent of Education.

—Evaulation of the General Overseer

—Irregularities on the General Board of Trustees

—Differences between the Editor-Publisher and the Musical Editor

—Loans and donations from the Tithe Fund

—Request for emergency refinancing from the Church of God at Adomda